Word: overwhelm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winter of 1945-46, Knowland made his first trip to the Far East with a Senate committee investigating the disposal of surplus war properties. In Tokyo he met General Douglas MacArthur and was enormously impressed, but not overwhelmed (Knowland is a hard man to overwhelm). He was fascinated by Asia's political and economic problems and, once back in Washington, began studying them. After hours and weeks and months of concentrated self-education, he came to an unshakable conviction: in its preoccupation with Europe, the U.S. was disastrously neglecting Asia...
...polled 1,274,000 votes on the Republican ticket to win the nomination over cross-filing Democrat Sam W. Yorty, Los Angeles lawyer and ex-Congressman. On the Democratic ticket, State Senator Richard L. Richards, 39, free-swinging, liberal disciple of Representative James Roosevelt, polled 963,000 votes to overwhelm both Yorty (380,000) and Kuchel (592,000) and win the Democratic nomination...
...Museum Piece. At the same time, he justified Bhutan's continued isolation: "Almost 98% of Bhutanese own their own farms. If we opened our country to foreign aid now, India, and perhaps even Red China, would rush in, overwhelm us and reduce our people to a servant class...
After losing its opening game, 78 to 66, to Bowdoin, on December 28, the Crimson came back the next night to overwhelm Middlebury, 100 to 51. The score beat the previous record, set December 8, 1949, when the team crushed Boston University, 86 to 60. In the team's final game of the tourney. Amherst reversed an earlier decision by thrashing the varsity, 91 to 61, for third place...
Harvard's Phi Beta kappa touch football team is favored to overwhelm the Yale Phi Bete's in a contest today on the Old Campus at Yale. The game is scheduled to start at 10:30 A.M. Crimson Captain Daniel A. Resneck '56 predicted a 23-2 victory...